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Team Peps, Team Falcons, T1 and Virtus.pro won their opening games and moved into the quarterfinals of the Overwatch Champions Series Pre-Season Bootcamp on Friday in Seoul.
Peps outlasted Disguised 3-2 in a match that included a rare draw in the fourth round. Falcons swept VARREL 3-0, Virtus.pro did the same to All Gamers and T1 defeated Dallas Fuel 3-1.
Twelve teams are participating in the $25,000 event that kicks off the 2026 Overwatch Champions Series (OWCS). Teams from North America, the EMEA region, China, Japan and elsewhere in Asia were invited.
The single-elimination bracket saw teams seeded by regional and 2025 World Finals performance. All matches are first-to-three until Sunday's grand finals, which are first-to-four.
On Friday, Disguised jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Peps, winning 2-1 on Ilios Control and 1-0 on Shambali Monastery Escort.
After Peps clawed one back on Esperanca Push, 89.03m-52.84m, the teams tied 3-3 on Midtown Hybrid. They continued on to New Junk City Flashpoint, where Peps took the momentum with a 3-0 win before sealing the comeback 2-1 on Watchpoint: Gibraltar Escort.
Falcons did not allow VARREL to score a point on any map, blanking them 2-0 on Lijiang Tower Control, 3-0 on Shambali Monastery Escort and 3-0 on Midtown Hybrid.
It was the same story for Virtus.pro, which shut out All Gamers 2-0 on Ilios Control, 1-0 on Eichenwalde Hybrid and 1-0 on Shambali Monastery Escort.
T1 opened its match against Dallas Fuel with a 2-1 win on Lijiang Tower Control and a 2-0 triumph on Midtown Hybrid. Dallas extended the match by taking Havana Escort 3-2, but T1 finished it off with a 3-0 result on New Junk City Flashpoint.
The tournament continues Saturday with the four quarterfinal matches:
--Crazy Raccoon vs. Team Peps
--Weibo Gaming vs. Team Falcons
--Twisted Minds vs. T1
--Team Liquid vs. Virtus.pro
Overwatch Champions Series 2026 Pre-Season Bootcamp prize pool
1. $15,000
2. $5,000
3-4. $2,500
5-8. No money
9-12. No money -- Disguised, VARREL, Dallas Fuel, All Gamers
--Field Level Media
